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• Antislavery movements--United States.
• Hamilton, Daniel H., b. 1838.
• Hamilton, Elizabeth Heyward.
• Hamilton, Henry.
• Hamilton, James Randolph.
• Hamilton, James, 1786-1857.
• Hamilton, Thomas Lynch.
• Plantations--South Carolina.
• Sectionalism (United States)
• Slavery--South Carolina.
• Slaves--South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Blockades.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, Foreign.

• See also James Hamilton Papers (#1489), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Governor of South Carolina, planter, diplomat of the Republic of Texas.

Microfilm. Letters between James Hamilton and his wife Elizabeth Heyward and sons, James Randolph, Thomas Lynch, Henry, and D. H. (Daniel Heyward) Hamilton. Letters describe business trips, plantation operation, and financial arangements for the sale of slaves. Letters, 1861-1862, from D. H. Hamilton discuss the need for local troops to protect towns and homes, describe his regiment's part in several battles, and discuss what to do with slaves during the war.

Letters from Elizabeth's cousins discuss family news, abolition, blockades, and the intervention of England and France in the Civil War. Also included are several letters from a Southern sympathizer in New York (State).